Category: Home Lab
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Simple Site Monitoring with Raspberry PI and Python
My off-hours time this week has been consumed by writing some Python scripts to help monitor uptime for some of my sites. Build or Buy? At this point in my career, “build or buy” is a question I ask more often than not. As a software engineer, there is no shortage of open source and…
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Hardening your Kubernetes Cluster: Don’t run as root!
People sometimes ask my why I do not read for pleasure. As my career entails ingesting the NSA/CISA technical report on Kubernetes Hardening Guidance and translating it into actionable material, I ask that you let me enjoy hobbies that do not involve the written word.
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Moving the home lab to Kubernetes
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it, right? In the world of software, sometimes the path forward involves breaking the old things first.
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Ubuntu and Docker…. Oh Snap!
A few months ago, I made the decision to start building my my .NET Core side projects from as Linux-based containers instead of Windows-based containers. These projects are mostly CRUD APIs, meaning none of them require the Windows based containers. And, quite frankly, Linux is cheaper…. Now, I had previously built out a few Ubuntu…
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Polyglot-on for Punishment
I apologize for the misplaced pun, but Polyglot has been something of a nemesis of mine over the last year or so. The journey started with my Chamberlain MyQ-compatible garage door and a desire to control it through my ISY. Long story short (see here and here for more details), running Polyglot on a docker…
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Supporting Teamcity Domain Authentication
TLDR: TeamCity in Linux (or in a Linux Docker container) only supports SMBv1. Make sure you enable the SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support feature on your domain controllers. A few weeks ago, I decided it was time to upgrade my domain controllers. On a Hypervisor with space, it seemed a pretty easy task. My abbreviated…